How to Use clean sweep in a Sentence

clean sweep

noun

• The clean sweep of the square did not last for long, however.
  — Roger Owen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013
• Bochy felt Andrus had a clear path to the plate, and that Heim made a clean sweep tag.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
• The 49ers finished off a clean sweep of the NFC's other playoff teams.
  — Josh Dubow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
• But seven out of 10 isn’t the sort of clean sweep that sets off our data detectors.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Female artists made a clean sweep of the three awards for international artists (that is, artists who hail from outside the U.K.).
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2024
• After this weekend’s clean sweep and its complete dominance at the SAG Awards, the movie doesn’t really need much in the way of luck.
  — Glenn Whippcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• Pagonis went a step further and predicted a clean sweep for big tech.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2024
• The upset gave Miami a clean sweep of Indiana, coming a day after the men’s team also beat the Hoosiers in the second round.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• Have a game plan for day two The first day of your clean sweep may have left you feeling a mix of emotions, including exhaustion and satisfaction.
  — Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2023
• But if Trump beats Haley, Trump's opponents will have missed probably their best chance to defeat him, and Trump will be well on the way to a clean sweep of all 56 states and territories.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2024
• Down to foundational levels, a clean sweep of the Bulls must be further examined, all the way up to their front office’s consistent swings-and-misses.
  — Evan Sidery, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• During the party congress last year, Xi secured a historic third term in power and stacked his top team with loyalists in a clean sweep not seen since the Mao Zedong era decades before.
  — Laura He, CNN, 3 July 2023
• In the international narrative competition, A Strange Path took a straight path to a clean sweep and won all four categories.
  — Vulture, 19 June 2023
• Worries have been growing about China’s future direction since October, when Xi stacked his top team with loyalists in a clean sweep not seen since the Mao era.
  — Laura He, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• However, this year, Australia dominated the list of readers' favorite hotels in the region, with a clean sweep from Sydney.
  — Chloe Sachdev, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• Rather than making a clean sweep of all Corinthian students’ debt, the Obama Administration took a different approach.
  — Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2023
• The top high-trust countries are a clean sweep of the top spots on Transparency International’s rankings of corruption as perceived by both the public and business leaders, with Denmark currently on top.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2024
• On Election Day, Republicans here harnessed fears about rising crime and one-party Democratic rule to run a nearly clean sweep through competitive districts and secure their majority.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024